Basil Gill
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia Basil Gill (March 10, 1877 – April 23, 1955) was a British stage actor and film actor. His stage career included many roles in plays of Shakespeare. His career as a film actor started with Henry VIII (1911): he appeared with Beerbohm Tree, on whose version of the play the film was based. In 1926, Gill appeared in two short films made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, Santa Claus as the title character, and Julius Caesar as Brutus. He appeared in many more films, the last being The Citadel of 1938.
Filmography
Film
The Citadel
Doctor Page
1938
The Immortal Gentleman
William Shakespeare / Malvolio
1935
Film
Rembrandt
Adrien van Rijn
1936
Film
The Crimson Circle
James Beardmore
1936
Film
St. Martin's Lane
Magistrate
1938
Film
Knight Without Armour
Axelstein
1937
The Admirable Crichton
Crichton
1918
Film
God's Good Man
1919
Film
The Wandering Jew
Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
1933
Film
The Epic That Never Was
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
The Divine Spark
Romanie
1935
Film
The School for Scandal
Sir Peter Teazle
1930
Dangerous Medicine
Sir Francis
1938
Film
High Treason
President of the Federated States of Europe
1929
Film
Should a Doctor Tell?
Dr. Bruce Smith
1930
Film
His Lordship
Abdullah
1936
Glamour
Lord Westborough
1931
The Rocks of Valpre
Trevor Mordaunt
1919
On the Banks of Allan Water
Richard Warden
1916
Mrs. Dane's Defence
Sir Daniel Carteret
1933
Gaol Break
Dr. Walter Merkin
1936